John 7:43
So was there dissension among the people for him.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
So there was a division among the people because of him.
In Context
44And some of them would haue taken him, but no man layde handes on him.
Cross References
Matthew 10:35For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in lawe.
John 7:12And much murmuring was there of him among the people. Some said, He is a good man: other sayd, Nay: but he deceiueth the people.
John 10:19Then there was a dissension againe among the Iewes for these sayings,
Acts 23:7And when hee had saide this, there was a dissension betweene the Pharises and the Sadduces, so that the multitude was deuided.
Matthew Henry on John 7:38-45
The Gospel Invitation. 37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) 40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the… Read the whole commentary →